Audrey Watters

My first computer wasn't an Apple. It was a TI-99, and that was the machine on which I first learned BASIC. But I remember when my grandpa bought my brother and me an Apple IIe a few years later. I remember him -- an eighth grade drop-out himself -- marveling...

I felt somewhat late to the plussing party as I was at ISTE 2011 when Google+ was launched on Tuesday. I got an early invite (Thanks, Marshall), but didn't even log in until my flight back to the west coast late Wednesday night (Thanks, in-air WiFi). (Sidenote: how bizarre that...

Part of the magic of the iPad, promises Steve Jobs, is the ability for any age group with any tech experience to pick up the device and quickly understand how to use it. There's something about the touchscreen, something about the swipe that is far more intuitive, he argues, than...

My favorite (and most successful) story this week -- What Do Kids Say Is the Biggest Obstacle to Technology at School -- looked at the Speak Up 2010 survey, in which students did just that: had a chance to speak up about how technology is (and isn't) being used for...

Sadly, I could write a rant a day for the next few weeks about what's getting an axe in the federal budget. It seems as though, rather than addressing what are the core issues of what's wrong with revenue and expenditure in this country (e.g. corporations pay no taxes, defense...

Like most folks, I suffer under the weight of an inbox that never empties. I'm not sure that tech journalists get more emails than any other professions do, but we seem to be a bunch of whiny bitches about it, and as folks who email us really do want something...

I don't believe in the Garden of Eden. I don't believe in the Fall from Grace. I don't believe God made the world in seven days nor that He created Eve from one of Adam's ribs. I don't believe that eating from the Tree of Knowledge is a sin. I...

Get tattooed. (Right arm sleeve. Badgers, lions, clan MacLean, or something. Something fierce.) Turn 40 in England. Use more multimedia in my writing (or whatever it is kids these days call it. Create better graphics, use audio and video, etc). Get a "Techmeme" headline for Hack Education. Break more news...

You've got less than 24hours to take advantage of the second Humble Bundle, so you should hop to it. I finally had a chance to sit down yesterday (as the tech news grinds to a holiday halt) and play the bundle's 5 games. So let me attest: as with the...

I loved the first Humble Indie Bundle -- loved the concept of pay-what-you-want video games, loved the open-sourcing of the games, loved the money that went to charity, and simply loved the games themselves. So I was thrilled when I heard from Jeffrey Rosen and John Graham that they were...